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Recent Examples of stranglehold
That includes third base, a position that Oswaldo Cabrera will see a lot of time at but doesn’t necessarily have a stranglehold on.
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Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 21 Mar. 2025
On the pitch, however City’s Premier League stranglehold appears to be loosening, with the team currently fourth in the table, eight points behind leader Liverpool.
—Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 13 Dec. 2024
But truth be told, perfectionism goes against the grain of human nature, ultimately backfiring after clutching you in a stranglehold, injecting its rigidity into your bloodstream and choking the flow of spontaneous and flexible ideas.
—Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2025
The song won 27-year-old Cole the Grammy for best R&B vocal performance, female at the 18th annual Grammy Awards, breaking Aretha Franklin's eight-year stranglehold on the category.
—Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 15 Feb. 2025
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Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 21 Mar. 2025
On the pitch, however City’s Premier League stranglehold appears to be loosening, with the team currently fourth in the table, eight points behind leader Liverpool.
—Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 13 Dec. 2024
But truth be told, perfectionism goes against the grain of human nature, ultimately backfiring after clutching you in a stranglehold, injecting its rigidity into your bloodstream and choking the flow of spontaneous and flexible ideas.
—Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2025
The song won 27-year-old Cole the Grammy for best R&B vocal performance, female at the 18th annual Grammy Awards, breaking Aretha Franklin's eight-year stranglehold on the category.
—Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 15 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stranglehold
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Davidson accommodated him, sending Jones and a 2026 fourth-round pick to the Florida Panthers for 23-year-old goalie Spencer Knight and a conditional first-round pick in ’26 and agreeing to eat a chunk of Jones’ albatross of the contract.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Mar. 2025
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How Did Wisdom, the Laysan Albatross, Lay her Egg? Laysan albatrosses are known for their lifelong monogamy and typically lay one egg per year.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
6 Dec. 2024
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Now comes a cataclysm in the country’s foremost blue state that is traceable, in part, to irrational progressive priorities and may prove a millstone around the neck of one of the foremost talents on the Democratic bench, California governor Gavin Newsom.—
Rich Lowry,
National Review,
15 Jan. 2025
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Indian atta is stone-ground, meaning the wheat kernels are crushed between millstones into a fine powder.—
Shilpa Uskokovic,
Bon Appétit,
13 Mar. 2025
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Mitch Raposo: Mitch Raposo needed to negate an eight-inch reach disadvantage against Sumudaerji.—
Trent Reinsmith,
Forbes.com,
12 Apr. 2025
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Despite its disadvantages, single living is on the rise.—
Peter McGraw,
The Conversation,
10 Apr. 2025
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In 1936, famed Olympic runner Jesse Owens raced a horse in a 100-yard dash and won thanks in part to a 40-yard handicap).—
Emily Barone,
Time,
19 July 2017
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LNK classes have done everything from installing handicap doors at Redwood to creating a Healthy Newborn site for Transitions that serves mothers going through addiction recovery.—
Brent Cooper,
Cincinnati.com,
17 July 2017
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Not many of the other prospects check those boxes without at least one very notable drawback.—
Michael-Shawn Dugar,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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There are some unavoidable drawbacks to its more limited memory, though.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
10 Apr. 2025
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The firm downgraded Super Micro to sell from neutral and decreased its price target by $8 to $32, implying 24% downside over the next 12 months.—
Sean Conlon,
CNBC,
24 Mar. 2025
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However, there are certain downsides, the CAS laser’s power is only 70 mW, compared to the 100–120 Watts from commercial excimer lasers.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Mar. 2025
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Danette Colbert was arrested in Jefferson Parish in February and charged with fraud and theft for allegedly using debit and credit cards belonging to Adan Manzano, who was found dead in his hotel room outside New Orleans while covering the Super Bowl for Dallas’ local Telemundo affiliate KGKC.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
Fox News,
14 Mar. 2025
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However, residents are required to make the purchase via Ticketmaster using a debit or credit card linked to a billing address in Nevada.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
11 Mar. 2025
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Irresponsible marketing can put weapons of war in the hands of dangerous individuals without liability consequences for the manufacturers.—
Kaitlin McCallum,
Hartford Courant,
14 Mar. 2025
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One is a longstanding dispute over how the Office of Personnel Management calculates the Postal Service's liabilities for pre-1970 pension benefits.—
Hansi Lo Wang,
NPR,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Stranglehold.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stranglehold. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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